Strange things found in the forest

[YanmarFever]

Strange things found in the forest

This can be a fun or scary story of anything you have come across in your woodsy travels or hunting - scouting.
Old cabins, scary strange people - animals, cougars, graves, booby traps, abandoned items, old cars, camps, mines,
strange sightings, Big Foot!
Or anything unusual that happened to your friends that they will remember forever.

 

[Terry1040]

I found a campsite, with rusty old beer cans, likely from the 1950's or so. Was kind of neat, some had partial painted labels on them. Also, find that I am not the first one here !

 

[MossRoad]

A hobo in the woods back in the 60's. My kids found a hobo in the woods at their summer camp in the 2000's.

A spring cellar with cans of milk being cooled.

Cone-top beer cans.

A pond and a dam that we didn't know was there.

Fox w/babies.

Lots of old belt driven farm equipment.

Garbage bags full of full medicine bottles and mail from a Dr's office (we called our mom on that one. she called the cops).

Metal troughs, that looked like the cement chutes on a cement truck, but 6' long with flat ends and legs... about a hundred of them. Kids in the neighborhood used them as canoes in the lake. They'd sink if you tipped them, so you'd go to the woods and drag out another one. Turned out they were discarded crematorium troughs from the cemetery dump (mom found out and called the cops and health department on that one, too).

 

[Leejohn]

I found today another part and was able to wall down the trail of tears for about a half a mile. I have talked to and got to know the land owners, Hoping I might be able to walk from todays find to the River. It's about 5 or 6 miles of the trail that you just can't go to see or walk on and it's almost all woods. Today it made me think I was walking with them and how sad it must of been.

 

[stuckmotor]

Nearly 30 years ago our elderly neighbor wandered off. Search parties checked all the likely places for days. Finally someone checked a place with no road or path and found his body near our property line.
There were the remains of what l'm told were a couple of raided stills on the farm. One is gone now, the remains of the other are still recognizable.

 

[tcartwri]

Have found my fair share of poached animals. One a black bear with only it's gallbladder removed.. Or that's what I assumed they cut out.

 

[Jstpssng]

I've found many old camps throughout the years, so far nothing except old bottles and trash. Someday I'll go back and dig a few of them. A friend once found an nice old, single shot .22 in a camp, which he cleaned up and- after testing it by tying a string to the trigger- carried in the woods while working.
I came across anice old stone foundation a couple years ago that could have been interesting, I was gokng to visit the local historical society to find out more about it but my employer sold the land before I could get back to it.

While deer hunting this fall I came across the remains of a Honda Recon which was stolen in 2001. The serial #'s were gone but I know who owned it, we knew who stole it, (I caught them trying to steal mine the same night) and it was 1000 feet in back of the used ATV place we knew that it went to. (He stole things in Maine, took the parts off and brought them to PA to sell, then came back with stolen items from PA to sell up here.)

About 40 miles from here - also on my employer's land- a hunter came across a cache of Revolutionary war vintage rifles. He brought one out, but was never to find his way back. More recently in the same area, one of our timber harvesting equipment operators told of coming across the foundations of an old encampment. I've been in looking once with no success, but haven't given up hope.

Laying out a harvest block one day I picked up a big piece of coal about the size of a half gallon jug. It was in a strange place for a piece of coal, but my GPS showed an old road there which has long since returned to woods, and I suspect that the coal was for an old steam powered Lombard log hauler.

I was cruising timber, working my way up a steep mountainside in New Hampshire when I came across an old flume which was used to slide logs down the hill years ago. The wooden frame was gone of course, but it looked like a long concrete mixer chute running down the hill.
On the back side of a lake someplace in upstate New York
I came across an old horse hovel which was still in good shape and had a pair of log scoots inside.

I have never been to see this, Old locomotives sit abandoned in the middle of Maine ? Outdoors ? Bangor Daily News ? BDN Maine
but someday it will be a snowsled destination.

 

[stan33]

I have an old bus in the forest on my property in which the previous family had lived before they built the house. In there I found a Neil Sedaka 45rpm record, a wooden home made surfboard, a Mickey Mouse bedside lamp, a possum living in one of the bench seats and a snake's head preserved in a block of clear plastic. Oh and a nearly new Rubick's cube still in it's box.

 

[BigBoyToys]

Spend most of my time hunting in a tree stand with a bow. Last year decide to go out and walk some with the 12 gauge during shotgun season. Came across a 50-51 Studebaker pretty much intact, a lot of rust and not much left of the interior. First Studebaker I've ever seen in person. The round grill emblem was pretty cool.

 

[Looking4new]

In 1953 we had just moved 'out into the country', I was 7 and just full of the adventuring spirit. I went for a walk and about 5 miles from the house, in the bush I found an old log cabin. I found out later this particular cabin was the cabin used in the original Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans TV show.
The area is all built up with subdivisions now and long gone.

 

[MacLawn]

In the '60s while rabbit hunting with my Dad, we found an old liquor still. He knew about those. Anyway, our prize was a great aluminum funnel, which I still have and use often. I've never seen a funnel like this one. It has a 4" spout on bottom and is like a bowl where you pour liquid in. Love that thing!!

 

[crash325]

While working at the Healy ranch in Carr canyon ( I was about 14 ) found 2 deer sculls with locked antlers.
Carr canyon boxes up, it was rumored that outlaws had hid out there, long ago. Rode down from the head of canyon & sure enough there was an old camp site. What I remember best was an old trunk, & mostly just trash. No hidden loot.

 

[paulharvey]

In the '60s while rabbit hunting with my Dad, we found an old liquor still. He knew about those. Anyway, our prize was a great aluminum funnel, which I still have and use often. I've never seen a funnel like this one. It has a 4" spout on bottom and is like a bowl where you pour liquid in. Love that thing!!

Still cap? I always heard aluminum wouldn't hold up to alcohol vapors

 

[two_bit_score]

Interesting.